Harvard University Press - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harvard University Press write by Max Hall. This book was released on 1986. Harvard University Press available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A university press is a curious institution, dedicated to the dissemination of learning yet apart from the academic structure; a publishing firm that is in business, but not to make money; an arm of the university that is frequently misunderstood and occasionally attacked by faculty and administration. Max Hall here chronicles the early stages and first sixty years of Harvard University Press in a rich and entertaining book that is at once Harvard history, publishing history, printing history, business history, and intellectual history. The tale begins in 1638 when the first printing press arrived in British North America. It became the property of Harvard College and remained so for nearly half a century. Hall sketches the various forerunners of the "real" Harvard University Press, founded in 1913, and then follows the ups and downs of its first six decades, during which the Press published steadily if not always serenely a total of 4,500 books. He describes the directors and others who left their stamp on the Press or guided its fortunes during these years. And he gives the stories behind such enduring works as Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being, Giedion's Space, Time, and Architecture, Langer's Philosophy in a New Key, and Kelly's Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings.
Harvard Observed
Harvard Observed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harvard Observed write by John T. Bethell. This book was released on 1998. Harvard Observed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Depicting the evolution of 20th-century Harvard in the broader context of national and world events, this text shows how changes in the structure and aspirations of American society led the University to remake itself after World War II, and to do so again after the social upheavals of the Vietnam era.
The Founding of Harvard College
The Founding of Harvard College - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Founding of Harvard College write by Samuel Eliot Morison. This book was released on 1995. The Founding of Harvard College available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities back to Europe, providing "a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande" [Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune].
Racism in America
Racism in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racism in America write by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06. Racism in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Racism in America has been the subject of serious scholarship for decades. At Harvard University Press, we’ve had the honor of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. The excerpts in this volume—culled from works of history, law, sociology, medicine, economics, critical theory, philosophy, art, and literature—are an invitation to understand anti-Black racism through the eyes of our most incisive commentators. Readers will find such classic selections as Toni Morrison’s description of the Africanist presence in the White American literary imagination, Walter Johnson’s depiction of the nation’s largest slave market, and Stuart Hall’s theorization of the relationship between race and nationhood. More recent voices include Khalil Gibran Muhammad on the pernicious myth of Black criminality, Elizabeth Hinton on the link between mass incarceration and 1960s social welfare programs, Anthony Abraham Jack on how elite institutions continue to fail first-generation college students, Mehrsa Baradaran on the racial wealth gap, Nicole Fleetwood on carceral art, and Joshua Bennett on the anti-Black bias implicit in how we talk about animals and the environment. Because the experiences of non-White people are integral to the history of racism and often bound up in the story of Black Americans, we have included writers who focus on the struggles of Native Americans, Latinos, and Asians as well. Racism in America is for all curious readers, teachers, and students who wish to discover for themselves the complex and rewarding intellectual work that has sustained our national conversation on race and will continue to guide us in future years.
Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936
Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 write by Samuel Eliot Morison. This book was released on 1986-10-15. Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Samuel Eliot Morison sat down to tell the whole story of Harvard informally and briefly, with the same genial humor and ability to see the human implications of past events that characterize his larger, multi-volume series on Harvard.
